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Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs organises Prize Distribution Function of the 24th National Parliament Competition, 2022-23 for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal  wins first prize in the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2022-23
The Prize Distribution Function of the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2022-23 for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas was held on Thursday, the 4th of May, 2023 at Parliament House Complex, New Delhi. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal  wins first prize in the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2022-23.
The Union Minister of State for Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Culture Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, distributed the prizes to the winning teams of Vidyalayas for their meritorious performance in the Competition .Apart from JNV ,Nadia,West Bengal , the following 7 regional winning Vidyalayas also received prizes :
1. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Puri, Odisha 
2. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Chandrapur, Maharashtra (Pune
Region)
3. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Mandya, Karnataka (Hyderabad
Region)
4. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kathua, Jammu & Kashmir

5. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, East Khasi Hills-I, Meghalaya

6. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kurukshetra, Haryana (Jaipur
Region)
7. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh

The Minister, Shri Meghwal has taken an interactive session with the students during the program. The Minister exhorted while interacting with the students that the younger generation should learn and adapt the democratic values and ethics of democracy and devote themselves to promote the harmony and tradition of this democratic country. Shri Meghwal also administered the Swachhata Pledge to all the attendees of the function.
While delivering the Welcome Address, the Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs ,Shri G.Srinivas has given a clarion call to the students for popularising and inculcating the practices and process of Parliamentary proceedings. He said that National Youth Parliament Competitions have been spread from Schools to Universities.
On this occasion, the winning team of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal , presented an energetic repeat performance of Youth Parliament which was appreciated hugely by the gathering.
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been organising Youth Parliament Competitions in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas for the past 26 years. Under the scheme of National Youth Parliament Competition for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, the 24th Competition in the series was organized during 2022-23 among 80 Vidyalayas spread over 8 regions of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, all over India.
The Youth Parliament Scheme aims at inculcating among the younger generations the spirit of self-discipline, tolerance of diverse opinion, righteous expression of views and other virtues of a democratic way of life. Besides, the scheme also acquaints the students with the practices and procedures of Parliament, techniques of discussion and debate and develops in them self-confidence, quality of leadership and the art and skill of effective oratory.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
National telemedicine service of India - eSanjeevani achieves 8 crore teleconsultations
eSanjeevani surpasses records by registering 1 crore consultations in approximately 5 weeks
eSanjeevaniOPD trains and onboards 2,22,026 specialists, doctors and health workers
More than 45,000 ABHA IDs have been generated via eSanjeevani application
In a significant achievement, eSanjeevani, Govt. of India’s free telemedicine service, has crossed another astounding milestone by clocking 8 crore teleconsultations. The last 1 crore consultations were recorded in a remarkable time frame of around 5 weeks, signaling a wider adoption of telemedicine. An e-health initiative of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, eSanjeevani is a national telemedicine service that strives to provide an alternative to the conventional physical consultations via digital platform.
In less than 3 years, this initiative has garnered the distinction of being the world’s largest government owned telemedicine platform. It consists of two verticals that cater to patients across all states and UTs successfully making its presence felt in the innermost regions of the nation.
The first vertical eSanjeevaniAB-HWC endeavors to bridge rural-urban digital health divide by providing assisted teleconsultations, and ensuring that e beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat Scheme are able to avail of the benefits they are entitled to. This vertical operates on a Hub-and-Spoke model wherein the ‘Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centers’  are set up at state level, act as spokes, which are mapped with the hub  at zonal level. With the objective to provide quality health services to a patient residing in rural areas, this model has been successfully implemented in 1,09,748 Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres  and 14,188 Hubs, achieving a total of 7,11,58,968 teleconsultations.
eSanjeevaniOPD is the latter vertical which caters to citizens in both rural and urban alike. It leverages technology via smartphones, tablets, laptops enabling doctor consultations to be accessible from the patient’s residence regardless of location. eSanjeevaniOPD has acquired 1,144 online OPDs with 2,22,026 specialists, doctors and health workers that have been trained and onboarded. This platform has an impressive record of having served over 4.34 lakhs patients in one day. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing , Mohali, which is providing holistic technical training and support to users, is augmenting the faculties of this vertical to be able to serve up to 1 million patients per day.
eSanjeevani is a cohesive part Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission , and more than 45,000 ABHA IDs have been generated via eSanjeevani application.
Leading ten states for usage of this platform are: Andhra Pradesh , West Bengal , Karnataka , Tamil Nadu , Maharashtra , Uttar Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh , Bihar , Telangana , Gujarat .
Ministry of Education
DIKSHA for children with disabilities
DIKSHA is the platform for providing quality e-content for school education in States/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades . DIKSHA complies with World Wide Web Consortium  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines  2.0 level AA. This enables people with visual impairments to access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System  and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube. In all 767 textbook based ISL videos have been recorded. Out of these 510 textbook based on ISL videos are uploaded on DIKSHA. The 10,000 word ISL dictionary has been uploaded on DIKSHA. 3,142 audio books chapters are also uploaded on DIKSHA.
The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the RajyaSabha today.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
MOU Signed Between UIDAI and ISRO for Technical Collaboration
A Memorandum of Understanding  has been signed between the Unique Identification Authority Of India , Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology , New Delhi and National Remote Sensing Centre , ISRO, Hyderabad, for technical collaboration here today. The MoU was signed by Sri Shailendra Singh, IFS, Deputy Director General, UIDAI and Dr. Prakash Chauhan, Director, NRSC in the presence of CEO,UIDAI and other senior officers of UIDAI and NRSC.
NRSC will be developing Bhuvan-Aadhar portal providing information and locations of the aadhaar centres across India. The portal also provides a facility to search the relevant Aadhaar centres by location based on residents requirements.
NRSC will also provides web based portal to collect and store data pertaining to existing and new enrolment centres to improve citizen centric services by carrying out regular statutory inspections. Collected data will be moderated for quality through approved authorities at regional level to ensure the precise information for residents about the centres along with online visualization facility.
Bhuvan will facilitate complete geographic information storage, retrieval, analysis and reporting for Aadhaar centres, with a high resolution backdrop of natural color satellite images. UIDAI and NRSC are closely working out the modalities of design, integration and roll out on priority.
The Unique Identification Authority of India  is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar  Act, 2016  on 12 July 2016 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology . UIDAI has so far issued Aadhaar number to more than 132 crore residents and facilitates over 60 crore residents who have updated their Aadhaar.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Women and Child Development  to organize National Conference on Skilling in Non- Traditional Livelihood for Girls “Betiyan Bane Kushal” tomorrow
Conference emphasizes skilling, new age skills and non-traditional livelihood for girls
Signing of MoUs with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Ministry of Minority Affairs for Skilling of young Girls for equal and empowered participation in the workforce
“BetiyanBaneKushal” event will be live streamed to a nationwide audience
An interactive session between the Union WCD Minister and a group of adolescent girls who are making their mark in NTL from across India to be held,
BBBP Operational Manual for guidance of State/Districts for the implementation of the scheme to be launched
Ministry of Women and Child Development  will organize National Conference on Skilling in Non- Traditional Livelihood  for Girls “Betiyan Bane Kushal” under the banner of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child on 11th October, 2022. The conference will emphasize convergence between ministries and departments to ensure that girls build their skills and enter the workforce in a diverse set of professions, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics , where girls have historically been under-represented. The event will witness signing of MoUs with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship  and Ministry of Minority Affairs for Skilling of young Girls for their increased, equal and empowered participation in the workforce. BBBP Operational Manual for guidance of State/Districts for the implementation of the scheme consequent to the changes made as per Mission Shakti guidelines will also be launched on the occasion.
The “BetiyanBaneKushal” event will be live streamed  to a nationwide audience, and is expected to be attended by representatives from the MWCD, MSDE, Department of Sports, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Ministry of Education as well as statutory bodies such as the National Council for the Protection of Child Rights. Girls and young women from across India will lead by example at the event.
Other key highlights of the event include:
- An interactive session between the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Ms. Smriti Zubin Irani, and a group of adolescent girls who are making their mark in NTL from across India.
- Launch of the BBBP operationalmanual which lays out operational guidelines and avenues for convergence.
- Announcement of commitments with MoSDE and MoMA on 21st-century skills focusing on life and employability skills, entrepreneurship skills, digital literacy and financial literacy skills.
- Best practices on skilling from the ground, showcased by selected districts
- Case studies on sustainable inclusion of girls and women in NTL, with examples from industry, NGOs and CSOs.
Ministry of Steel
RINL organizes Customer Meet 2023
RINL, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has organized “Customer Meet” on Monday at Gurajada Kalakshetram of Ukkunagaram of RINL. Around 100 Customers from all over country along with Exports customers have attended the meeting. RINL has a large base of customers operating in 23 branches operated across width & breadth of India.
Addressing the customers, Shri Atul Bhatt, CMD RINL said that the RINL shares a beautiful relationship with our customers and our fortune in a way is intertwined with each other. He requested the customers to be part of the growth path of the company and help in increasing the market share of RINL. He said that the Financial Year 2023-24 is going to be a "Momentous Year” as the plant is all set to ramp up production from Aug’23 onwards and assured that the requirement of customers will be fully met from the improved production levels.
Shri DK Mohanty, Director , RINL in his address explained the global & domestic market scenario. He assured that RINL was and will always strive to protect the interests of their valued customers in the longer run. He has appreciated the loyalty shown by the customers and commended their constant patronage to RINL and its products.
Later, the customers had a fruitful interaction with senior officials of RINL, wherein they were assured of resolving the issues pertaining to various issues of marketing. After the meeting, some of the customers were taken to various production units of RINL & the Central dispatch yard of marketing.
Chief general managers, senior officials of RINL, representatives of steel executive association, various trade unions and associations have also attended the program.
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan holds Talk with OPEC Secretary General, Calls for Responsible Steps to Achieve Global Energy Stability
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan held a discussion through Video Conference with H.E. Dr. Mohammed Barkindo, Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries .Discussions focused on current developments in global energy markets and crude oil price trends in the midst of Covid-19-induced challenges and in the run-up to the OPEC meetings later this month.
Minister Pradhan highlighted the need for producing and consuming countries to take responsible steps in the coming days to enable revival of fragile economic situation globally. He noted that gradual economic recovery is expected which will revive oil growth, and thus care should be taken not to upset the fragile balance between supply and demand achieved so far.Minister Pradhan stressed on OPEC’s role in stabilising oil markets, and agreed to work in close collaboration with OPEC countries for India’s energy security and also for global energy stability in the current challenging environment.
MrBarkindo invited Shri Pradhan to take part in the 8th OPEC International Seminar which will be held in Vienna on the 16th and 17th of June 2021.Both sides agreed to hold the India-OPEC High level Dialogue in July 2020 through DVC.MrBarkindo conveyed deep appreciation and admiration of India’s efforts in managing the pandemic and reviving the economic activities in the country.
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Kendriya Bhandar selling Atta to consumers at Rs 29.50/kg
NAFED and NFCC to start selling Atta at Rs 29.50/kg from February 6th, 2023
Secretary Department of Food and Public Distribution reviewed the progress of Atta supply to consumers in view of inflationary trend
The Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution in a meeting here today reviewed the progress of Open Market Sale Scheme . He particularly reviewed the progress of supply of Atta  @ Rs. 29.50/kg through various outlets in the country for sale to consumers with a view to check inflationary trend in food economy.
Shri Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary DFPD during the meeting with Food Corporation of India , Kendriya Bhandar, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India  and National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited  decided that these institutions will lift wheat upto 3 LMT from FCI Depots and after converting it into Atta they will sell Atta to Consumers @ Rs. 29.50/Kg through various retail outlets, mobile Van etc.
These institutions agreed to supply Atta @ Rs. 29.50/Kg named as “Bharat Atta” or “any other suitable name” with bold mention of MRP of Rs. 29.50/Kg. Kendriya Bhandar has already started the sale of Atta @ Rs. 29.50/Kg from today itself, however, NCCF and NAFED will supply Atta @ Rs. 29.50/Kg from 6th February 2023 onward.
It was also decided that any Corporations/ Cooperatives/ Federations/Self Help Group of State Governments/UTs may also get allocated wheat @ Rs. 23.50 /Kg from the Government of India on recommendation of respective State Government/ UT for sale of Atta to consumers @ Rs. 29.50/Kg.
The Committee of Ministers under chairmanship of Hon’ble Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah reviewed the prices of essential commodities on 25.01.2023 and decided to release 30 LMT wheat from FCI stock through OMSS.
It was decided that 25 LMT be offered through the e-auction route to traders, flour mills, etc as per the usual process followed by FCI. Bidders can participate in e-auction for a maximum quantity of 3000 MT per region per auction. 2 LMT be offered to State Governments for their schemes @10,000 MT/State without e-auction. 3 LMT be offered to Govt PSUs/cooperatives/Federations such as Kendriya Bhandar/NCCF/NAFED etc without e-auction. This will be subject to the stipulation that they convert wheat to atta and offer it to public at an MRP not exceeding Rs 29.50/kg.
Subsequently, DFPD made allocation of 2.5 LMT of wheat to Kendriya Bhandar/ NAFED /NCCF as per their requisitions. Kendriya Bhandar and NAFED were allocated 1LMT each and 50000 MT was allocated to NCCF on 27th January, 2023.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
I&B Ministry issues Advisory to all Satellite TV channels on Display of Castings/Credits/Titles of Hindi and Regional Language TV Serials
It has come to the notice of Ministry of Information & Broadcasting that several Hindi and Regional Language TV channels display the castings/credits/titles of Hindi and Regional language TV serials only in English. This practise tends to deprive people versed with Hindi and Regional languages of the valuable information about casting of TV serials/programmes.
With a view to enhance outreach and benefit TV viewers of the country, the Ministry has advised all private satellite TV channels to consider displaying the castings/credits/titles of Hindi and Regional languages TV serials in the respective languages also.
Ministry of Finance
PRESS COMMUNIQUE
Government’s Borrowing plan for Second Half of FY 2023-24
The Government of India, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, has finalized its borrowing programme for the second half  of FY 2023-24.
Out of Gross Market borrowing of ₹15.43 lakh crore projected for FY 2023-24, the Government of India has decided to borrow the balance amount of ₹6.55 lakh crore  in the second half of the fiscal year 2023-24  through dated securities, including ₹20,000 crore through issuance of Sovereign Green Bonds . Responding to market demand for longer duration securities, 50-year security will be issued for the first time.
The gross market borrowing of ₹6.55 lakh crore shall be completed through 20 weekly auctions. The market borrowing will be spread over 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 30, 40 and 50 years securities. The share of borrowing  under different maturities will be: 3 year , 5 year , 7 year , 10 year , 14 year , 30 year , 40 year  and 50 year .
The Government will continue to carry out switching of securities to smoothen the redemption profile. Out of the ₹1,00,000 crore of budgeted  Switch amount, ₹51,597 crore of switch auctions have already been conducted and the balance amount of switch auctions will be conducted in H2.
Government will continue to exercise greenshoe option to retain an additional subscription of up to ₹2,000 crore against each of the securities indicated in the auction notification.
Weekly borrowing through issuance of Treasury Bills in Third Quarter  of FY 2023-24 is expected to be ₹24,000 crore with net borrowing of ₹52,000 crore during the quarter. There will be issuance of ₹7,000 crore under 91 DTBs, ₹8,000 crore under 182 DTBs and ₹9,000 crore under 364 DTBs in each auction to be conducted during the quarter.
To take care of temporary mismatches in Government accounts, the Reserve Bank of India has fixed the Ways and Mean Advances  limit for H2 of FY 2023-24 at ₹50,000 crore.
More details may be seen in the detailed Press Release available on the Websites of Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India.
Ministry of Steel
Steel Minister Reviews Pending Environment and Forest Clearance Issues of CPSEs
Union Steel Minister, Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh here today reviewed the Environment Clearance  and Forest Clearance  issues of CPSEs under Ministry of Steel pending with Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change  and State Governments.
The issues pertaining of Steel Authority of India Ltd. , National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. , Orissa Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. , Manganese Ore  Ltd.  & Kudremudk Iron Ore Company Ltd.  were deliberated in detail. Steel Minister, Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh was apprised that Ministry is regularly interacting with MoEF&CC, who is proactively working towards granting the Environment Clearance and Forest Clearance approvals in a time bound manner and many issues have been already resolved. Respective Division Heads briefed the Steel Minister about the issues pending for approval at MoEF&CC and also with various State Governments. Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh appreciated the progress made with regard to obtaining these approvals and directed that Ministry may take up the pending issues with the authorities concerned at MOEF&CC and respective State Governments for an early resolution.
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
HUDCO hands over a cheque of Rs 174.23 Crore as final dividend to the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
HUDCO has paid a total dividend of Rs 435.41 crore to its shareholders for the Financial year 2020-21. It today handed over a cheque of Rs 174.23 Crore as final dividend to the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, as part of the share of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is the largest shareholder in the company, having 61.08% share. 20.73% share is with the Ministry of Rural Development while the public holding is 18.19%.
The Company earned Gross profit of Rs 2268.64 Crore in 2020-21, compared to Rs 2174.53 Crore last year. HUDCO had announced total dividend of 21.25% to its shareholders. It had earlier paid an interim dividend of Rs 103.71 Crore @ 7.5%. The shareholding of MoHUA at the time of interim dividend was 69.08% which was subsequently reduced to 61.08% after divestment. It also paid Rs 50 Crore as unspent CSR fund to the government account.
Housing and Urban development Corporation  is a Schedule-A miniratna CPSE and India’s leading techno-financial PSU in the Housing and Urban Infrastructure.
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Ministry of Defence
ICGS VIJAYA JOINS COAST GUARD NORTH EAST FLEET
Kolkata: 04 October 2018
A state-of-the-art ship of Indian Coast Guard named ICGS Vijaya based at Paradwip has joined the northeast fleet. She will be deployed extensively for exclusive Economic Zone Surveillance and other duties as enshrined in the Coast Guard charter.
ICGS Vijaya, the second in the series of 98 m Offshore Patrol Vessels , was commissioned by Mr. Sanjay Mitra, Defence Secretary, in the presence of Director General Rajendra Singh, PTM,TM, Indian Coast Guard in Chennai today.
Designed and built indigenously by Larsen & Toubro, the OPV is fitted with advanced technology navigation and communication equipment and sensors. It is fitted with a 30 mm gun and will also get a 12.7 mm gun with fire control system.
ICGS Vijaya will enhance the Indian Coast Guard’s operational capability to discharge its multifarious maritime tasks. The induction of this patrol vessel will give a fillip to the maritime protection of the Eastern seaboard in general and north Bay of Bengal, maritime states of Odisha and West Bengal in particular.